Players can bet on the UK's political future!

The outcome of the election, resulted in what may be viewed as a stalemate, because no party had been able to gain the upper hand with a clear majority. Conservatives are currently leading with 306 seats out of 650.

The ruling party lost close to 100 seats and now totals 258 seats, while the Liberal-Democrats will return in the next Parliament, with 57 seats.

Immediately after the event, many parties lobby for power, and as negotiations continue, it must be decided upon how the next ruling government should be shaped.

Online bookmakers show odds like; 2/3 for Liberal Democrats, teaming up with Conservatives in order to shape the new Government, while a minority government of the Tories only gets 6/5 for odds. Liberal Democrats with teaming up with labour gets 4/1 and players can wager at 100/1 for a labour minority government, or even at 250/1 for a labour with Conservatives government.

While the dust is settling, it has been suggested many times, that parties may call for a second election. According to Paddypower.com the odds for that are 50/50, while others show odds like 11/8, 6/4 for two elections this year.

On the position of Gordon Brown, the odds say 2/1 that he will be doing work for charity, and 5/2, he will duplicate Tony Bair and take up speaking in public, and there are many more varieties to this theme players can bet on.

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